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Yaacov Zvieli squints at the cotton fields prospering under the sun and remembers what it was like at the beginning. How, as a skinny youth barely 20, he left his parents in Poland and in 1932 came to what was then called Palestine, carrying the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland. How he and other fervid believers founded the Negba kibbutz in 1939, digging wells and building huts on an arid patch 30 miles south of Tel Aviv. How he and his comrades, armed only with Molotov cocktails and a handful of shells, held off a dozen Egyptian tanks...
...measure, which administrators said would decrease the chances of theft, will present student groups--such as Friends of the Spartacus Youth League. The Harvard Crimson, and Harvard Student Agencies (HSA)--from their traditional night-time canvassing...
Legislation to erect barriers between teen-age drivers and alcohol, of course, will never provide more than a partial solution to the national problem of youth-caused road carnage. Admits Bob Anastas, executive director of Students Against Driving Drunk (SADD): "I just know that no matter what you do, you're still going to have kids drinking and driving." That grim fact is no excuse for not trying. But it provides a cautionary note against viewing the current proposal as a panacea, any more than was the Noble Experiment: Prohibition. -By William R. Doemer. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett...
Branson is new to the airline business. A school dropout at 15, he started by selling advertising from a phone booth for his own youth-market magazine, Student. Today his bustling $200 million empire includes pop and rock records, videos, discos, film production and retail music outlets...
Peterkin--who holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Massachusetts. Amherst--has worked extensively with community groups ranging from Boston Youth Theater to Roxbury Youthworks. In addition, the 39-year-old was named one of Boston's "Ten, Outstanding Young Leaders...